This past Thursday was Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Yom Kippur concludes the High Holy Days that began on September 22 with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The Hebrew traditions are a piece of our Unitarian Universalist sources, and this Sunday, we honor this connection by exploring the journey from forgiveness and compassion to atonement. For some, atonement is an attempt to be at one with the holy; for others, it’s an admission that, like it or not, we are “at-one” with each other, despite broken promises and times of pain. As Elizabeth Strong writes, “here is where the sacred and the holy enter…. Let us rejoice and be thankful that we are together again.”